Archive for September, 2009

Faxing Private Data

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Each month, Indiana business owner Bill Keith receives over 150 faxes. Each one contains confidental patient records, but Keith is not even in the medical business!

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Principal Workflow

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Greg Carroll is a elementary school principal in New Zealand. Despite this position of authority and respect in his community, he still spends much of his day focused on effectiveness and efficiency.

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Saying No at Work

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Slaughter Development’s founder has a column in the Indianapolis Business Journal this week.

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Caught Goofing Off

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Yesterday, a woman named Amanda Hite made a routine visit to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. While waiting in line, she noticed an employee playing computer solitaire—and managed to snap a picture with her cellphone camera.

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Policy and Going Paperless

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

When the City of Langford realized they had too much paper, they did not choose to buy more file cabinets. Instead, they established a new, all-digital workflow.

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Impacts of Cost Cutting

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

In an anonymous opinion piece, one former employee explains how a reduction in expenses destroyed productivity and morale. Mark down another incident for the law of unintended consequences.

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Four Workflow Revelations

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

A blogger named Adrian Try has documented four lessons that helped optimize his workflow. All his ideas come from one source: thinking carefully about the process of work.

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The Tape-Free TV Station

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Visit any television station and you are likely to see racks filled with videotapes. Finding, loading, playing, rewinding and re-shelving this media is a workflow that is no longer required.

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Caps Lock Termination

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

You might lose your job for any number of reasons, but being fired is usually connected to a major mistake. One New Zealand woman, however, was terminated because of her use of the caps lock key.

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